Alex Wubbels has said that she was 'bullied to the utmost extreme' by the policeman

After the video went public prosecutors called for a criminal investigation into the incident and Detective Jeff Payne was put on paid leave yesterday.

Nurse Wubbels told The Associated Press: "This cop bullied me. He bullied me to the utmost extreme and nobody stood in his way.

Former Olympic skier Alex was working as the charge nurse in the burns unit of the hospital on July 26 when Detective Payne came and asked for blood to be drawn from a patient.

The patient, a male lorry driver, had been brought in unconscious after being involved in a head on collision with a driver fleeing from police.

Medics sedated the truck driver, who was severely burned and arrived at University of Utah Hospital in a comatose state.

Payne was sent to collect blood from the patient and check for illicit substances, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.

But as the driver wasn't not a suspect in the crash police didn't have a warrant for a blood sample.

Also, the patient was unconscious and couldn't consent to his blood being taken.

The 20 minute clip shows Wubbels explaining the hospital policy to the police officer and even calling her supervisors to confirm the policy, but Detective Payne is seen getting increasingly threatening towards her.

“The patient can’t consent, he’s told me repeatedly that he doesn’t have a warrant, and the patient is not under arrest,” she says. “So I’m just trying to do what I’m supposed to do, that’s all.”

"The only job I have as a nurse is to keep my patients safe. A blood draw - it gets thrown around there like it's some simple thing - but blood is your blood, it's your property," Wubbels told the Today show.